Note 39 — Chapter III · THE TYRANNY OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Poggii, Hist. Florent. pop. l. vii. in Murat. col. 381. This view is in accordance with the anti-monarchical sentiments of many of the humanists of that day. Comp. the evidence given by Bezold, ‘Lehre von der Volkssouverainität während des Mittelalters,’ Hist. Ztschr. bd. 36, s. 365.